CBC interview with Jay Cullen, associate professor and marine chemist at University of Victoria’s school of earth & ocean sciences, Nov. 20, 2013 (at 8:15 in): I think we could definitely have more monitoring. I know that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans — the Institute of Ocean Science –- [the lion-p?] program which is a time series program that monitors the chemistry and biology of the North Pacific that’s headed up by Maria Robert. They’re making measurements of these Fukushima-source radionuclides offshore, and they’re starting to detect the presence of the plume of radioactivity. Again these elements, the concentrations are really quite low compared to natural* radionuclides, but it is making its way towards our coast. But I do think it would be prudent to monitor both precipitation and what’s going on in the oceans, especially over the next couple of years. 1: for what we can learn about how the oceans are operating; and 2: to really – again — put these risks into perspective. I think that the public’s perceived risk, especially when it comes to radioactivity in the environment, is sometimes way out of line with what the actual risks are.

44 comments to CBC: Gov’t scientists are now detecting Fukushima’s radioactive plume offshore of Canada — Professor: It’s headed to our coast, I think monitoring rainfall over next couple years is prudent (AUDIO)

The USS Ronald Reagan crew weren't so blessed. They took a direct hit. They won't be collecting much Social Security because they will be dead from lung cancer caused by inhaled plutonium. The cancers will manifest slowly over time.

No masks, no easily washed oversuits…while the suds help keep dust down (and dump it in the ocean), those soldiers were just breathing the stuff in. Why do we treat our own (soldiers, species) that way?

I just found another article on fukushima that appeared 5 days ago written by Jay Cullen. He says :

when I read that marine organisms and human beings are in danger along the West Coast of North America because of radioactivity from Fukushima, I have a responsibility to communicate to the public that this is not so. The radioactivity that we are exposed to here every day, by being on or in the water or from consuming seafood from the Pacific, is insignificantly different from the time before the terrible events at Fukushima took place.

An element said to be harmless to life, yet have a level of radioactivity equal to or even greater than most highly unstable and radioactive isotopes. Possibly a decay product of Unobtanium, it seems to exist only in the minds of pro-nuclear industry Fukushima deniers.

Here is something for those new to this issue who are confused when people start using Bananas to explain radiation exposure or if you are wondering why we joke about Bananas and radiation. Bananas have some radiation in them naturally. Humans have adapted to process them so it is not harmful which you already know right? The pro-nuclear side likes to use the radiation in Bananas as an example of radiation exposure and hopes that those who don’t know that much will accept that example and question no further. So whenever you are thrown the Banana as an example of radiation exposure understand that whomever is using it is a talking down to you and thinks you are an idiot. Just ask yourself this question, if the non-harmful radiation in a Banana was the same as the radiation in the Uranium used as fuel in a nuclear reactor why don’t they just use Bananas to operate nuclear reactors instead of Uranium? Obviously they are not the same so please don’t fall for the nuclear Banana those of you that are just learning about this issue.

I see headlines like this and I want to vomit – and then I seriously wish I could take some kind of action against those who would willingly lie to a population by equating radiation with bananas. The only "justice" is that radiation isn't selective and people like Jay Cullen (he doesn't deserve the title "doctor") and all these idiotic, sycophant journalists who sold out their integrity for a paycheck will likely dies form the radiation that they dismisses as unimportant. Still, he and his ilk have a right to continuously lie to world.

The radiation hit Canada right after 3/11 and never stopped. I have friends who live in Whistler who have invited me for a free ski vacation – and I won't go. I will never ski in the Northern Hemisphere again. It isn't worth the additional exposure. I meet a lot of Canadians from BC in my shop. I think half the population of Nelson comes to Nicaragua for winter vacation. I have talked with so many Canadians who do not know what Fukushima is, let alone that they are breathing radiation. The have pretty much unanimously said that their government would never lie and I am just paranoid. My European friends believe that they are untouched, even when I show them dispersal patterns and facts like Fukushima markers showing up in French butter and pine tress in Siberia. Some people think enenews is a conspiracy site!

Kelly, most people are in denial about Fukushima and the beauty about science (scientific method) is for all that science does to improve our lives, this progress is also verifiable about the results obtained good or bad using that same scientific method.

This enenews site is a far cry/distance from any type of conspiracy site since the scientific method can be used to prove or disprove any headlines/links/information produced which are often backed by many educated scholars in many fields of expertise. Let them know this is an educational website with some interesting posters that light up many of headlines/topics displayed via/expressing their freedom of speech first amendment rights.

As far as vacations people should understand from this site the precautions required through the education thrown out and shared with all that come to learn. Remember the fallout is very sporadic and so is the harm and not everyone will necessarily be negatively affected when they go on vacation but I would stay away from Japan for sure.

Enjoy your life today and even your Canadian ski vacations using those simple precautions..

All nuclear technology is bad technology and they should come here to learn why..

Right. Recently when I was staying with my Parisian friend, we were at a weekly market and she asked if I wanted to eat some fresh picked mushrooms. I said I had stopped eating them because of rad-isotopes. She replied that she doesn't buy any that come from Ukraine or Bulgaria. Then I said, "Well, Chernobyl hit France too. Her reply was what I get also from a lot of friends here who will talk about this: "People have to eat. What can they do?" This is the bottom line paradox that we all are faced with. Most people who haven't been brainwashed by industry and govt. propaganda just feel resigned, it seems. I'm an oldie so I'll die of something eventually and not so long in the future. But I keep fighting, along with outfits like NIRS and the others.
It's much worse for younger people, dealing with the horrors of what will their kids die of and how about the rest of the planet?

Hey Kelly. I live in Whistler and most people here are also not aware that Fukushima is an ongoing issue and do not want to hear about it either. There are many of us though that are well aware of our situation and know that it is likely too late for us to prolong our inevitable lethal exposure. My girlfriend and I have quit skiing at the end of the 2011 season and will be leaving Whistler and moving to our new property in Costa Rica(Cahuita)in January. Fortunately, we are of the lucky group that made early investments in Bitcoins and Litecoins and now have the means to live out the rest of our days with means. You would be amazed at how angry many of our friends are that we made so much money in the coins, even after we repeatedly implored them all to invest in them as well. They attacked our concerns for their financial futures with the same haughty dismissing as we have continuously met with over Fukushima. I will never understand why people are always so quick to ignore or insult the messenger, or who will so quickly turn against those friends that tried so hard to help them. There will be no last laugh here. Instead, we are simply making our humble goodbyes to those that we once considered good friends and heading to what is likely to be our final oasis.

Radiation in American air and rain continues to rise.
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A new record of all-beta radiation was measured on Nov. 25 at Fukushima:

The 26th, Tokyo Electric announced from observation wells located on the sea side of the 1-4 Unit Fukushima, radioactive materials that emit beta radiation, such as strontium-90 has been 910,000 becquerels detected per liter. Was taken in the 25th, I went up from 750,000 becquerels of collecting the 21st. In the well of the primary sea side, it was a record high.

In The US, very high readings from rain were measured in Arkansas on Nov. 22. This is near the record high for this observer. This looks to be at least 18 times background. (Radiation in rain typically never exceeds 2-3 times background in high radon areas.)

This is a train wreck in slow motion but instead of 100 casualties in mere moments of time, Fukushima will kill billions of humans over the years to come.
Time to rethink what the Mayans were trying to tell us. The Mayan calender did not say the world would end, only that we face a new beginning. A new beginning just like Star Trek.
Peace

When the doctor comes in tells you have cancer and you will be in for the fight of your life, important things begin to get crystal clear. The unimportant things begin to fade and the important things become clear. I know from experience. These journalistic crackpots will find out the hard way. I wish some of these crackpots would stroll around a cancer center sometime and see how hard it is to fight cancer.

"When the doctor comes in tells you have cancer" UHHH EXCEPT that the doctor may tell you that he also has it and the treatment is being used only on the TPTB – and to just go home and take some asperine and hope that the pain isn't that bad – OH wait – the doctors already had the heads up and are out of the country by now and living in south America or South Africa, New Zealand etc. , – many people won't be able to find a doctor or a hospital or a clinic – not even the very rich or TPTB can escape this one as the southern hemisphere will become a feeding frenzy when they all realize that the dollars they have were simply printed and are worthless where they are living – and that there is a limited food supply now as nothing can be grown in the northern hemisphere that can be consumed.

Daisy207- that's what I was thinking too. Doctors with money (who have not left yet) will sell their practices(if they can), cut the cords and go. If they are a doctor that has overextended themselves with a big house mortgage and expensive cars, etc. it might be more difficult to unload all of that plus, one actually has to have lump sums of cash to get into most countries and one has to be able to prove they will have a steady income while living in the new country.

At some point, euthanasia options will probably become part of the health care system. I mean, death care system, as doctors and nurses aren't impervious to the rads.

The best counter arguments to use against the comparison of cesium-137 to potassium-40 (bananas) are the following.
Potassium-40 is a rare isotope – only 12 atoms out of every 100,000 potassium atoms.
Potassium-40 has a half life of 1,248,000,000 years, which means the probability of a spontaneous decay during the time it is inside a human (biological half life of 10-30 days, depending on daily potassium consumption amounts) is extremely short.
Potassium-40 is primarily a beta particle emitter, three different decay modes, and only 10% of decays release a gamma ray too. Humans have evolved repair options over millions of years to deal with this isotope.
In contrast, cesium-137 produces a gamma ray when it decays, with a half life of only 30.17 years (and biological half life in humans of 70-110 days, depending on daily consumption amounts of chemically similar elements, pectin, etc.), so the probability of a spontaneous decay inside a human is about 8 orders of magnitude higher. Humans have not evolved repair options over millions of years to deal with this isotope.
If this does not stop the argument – it's a waste of time to continue.

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This town (Naples Area) represents what would happen if we built a town near/over the Hanford Nuclear land dumps/fill/area.

What makes me sick is too just think about how many people from around the entire world (vacationers/ travelers/relatives) visited this town over the past 40 years? After their stay they returned home only to find themselves sitting in hospitals who are telling them they have no idea why they have their new cancers diagnosis/diseases that very rare/common and that are now spreading killing them..

This "Nuclear Technology" is truly horrific and a crime committed on all biological life residing on Planet Earth!

I will/would advise all travelers to "choose wisely" their planned destinations in the future, since this "Nuclear Contamination Shit" has been dumped everywhere/many places around the entire world..

The surprise found inside these cracker boxes I would not wish on my worst of enemies..

great flag obewanspeaks. This ties-in wonderfully with the discussion that we were having on investigating waste dumping operations. Reading the responses from others, one person mentioned how cautious they're going to be in their consumption of Italian products. I'd just warned others months ago against blithely thinking that Italian bottled waters were, in any way, safe to drink…

When I think about how easily and thoroughly radioactive particles get around, I remember this simple fact: The radioactive element Americium-241 (made from Plutonium, and first created in 1944,) is now estimated to have been absorbed at some microscopic level, into the tissues of every living creature on the planet!
I live in the north-central US, and even from here, are watching that plume as it travels to the west coast. It looks to me like we could be getting irradiated rain even here on the Minnesota prairie from 2015 to 2022!
That's not even including the on-going radiation leaks to the Pacific from the melted cores, or the critically that would envelop Japan if TEPCO has an accident in the spent fuel pool. So, keep those geiger-counters handy…

The cutting of a dead whale was handled more delicately in this instance on Science Channel. But it still was stinky going, with the creature emitting methane, hydrogen sulphide and ammonia, nuclear chemist Alistair Linstell said.

NOW WHY WOULD THEY NEED A NUCLEAR CHEMIST TO BE PRESENT FOR A WHALE????

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